ISBN: 9780262015899

By Markus Krajewski. -- Professor TomWilson, Editor-in-Chief, Information Research. Author Markus Krajewski. Edited by Markus Krajewski. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929.… Mehr…

By Markus Krajewski. -- Professor TomWilson, Editor-in-Chief, Information Research. Author Markus Krajewski. Edited by Markus Krajewski. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929. Short Title PAPER MACHINES. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 by Markus Krajewski Why the card catalog-a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements-can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description Why the card catalog-a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements-can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a "universal paper machine" that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business. Notes "Krajewski draws on recent German media theory and on a rich array of European and American sources in this thought-provoking account of the index card as a tool of information management. In investigating the road from the slips of paper of the 16th century to the data processing of the 20th, Krajewski highlights its twists and turns--failures and unintended consequences, reinventions, and surprising transfers."--Ann M. Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Harvard University, and author of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age -- Ann Blair "This is a fascinating, original, continuously surprising, and meticulously researched study of the long history of the emergence of card systems for organizing not only libraries but business activities in Europe and the United States. It is particularly important for English language readers due to its European perspective and the extraordinary range of German and other resources on which it draws." --W. Boyd Rayward, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- W. Boyd Rayward Author Biography Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index Review Markus Krajewski has done the history of cataloguing and the history of information management a considerable service: I recommend it highly.-Professor Tom Wilson, Editor-in-Chief, Information Research Review Quote "Markus Krajewski has done the history of cataloguing and the history of informationmanagement a considerable service: I recommend it highly." -- Professor TomWilson , Editor-in-Chief, Information Research Details ISBN0262015897 Author Markus Krajewski Short Title PAPER MACHINES Pages 224 Publisher MIT Press (MA) Language English Translator Peter Krapp ISBN-10 0262015897 ISBN-13 9780262015899 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 025.310 Year 2011 Imprint MIT Press Subtitle About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass. Country of Publication United States Translated from German Series History and Foundations of Information Science Birth 1972 Audience Age 18 Publication Date 2011-08-19 Affiliation University of California, Irvine Position Associate Professor Edited by Markus Krajewski Illustrations 24 figures, 1 table; 25 Illustrations, unspecified UK Release Date 2011-08-19 AU Release Date 2011-08-19 NZ Release Date 2011-08-19 US Release Date 2011-08-19 We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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2011, ISBN: 0262015897

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[EAN: 9780262015899], Neubuch, [PU: MIT Press (MA), Cambridge, Mass.], Hardcover. Why the card catalog-a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements-can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, business adopted the technology of the card catalog as a bookkeeping tool. Krajewski explores this conceptual development and casts the card file as a "universal paper machine" that accomplishes the basic operations of Turing's universal discrete machine: storing, processing, and transferring data. In telling his story, Krajewski takes the reader on a number of illuminating detours, telling us, for example, that the card catalog and the numbered street address emerged at the same time in the same city (Vienna), and that Harvard University's home-grown cataloging system grew out of a librarian's laziness; and that Melvil Dewey (originator of the Dewey Decimal System) helped bring about the technology transfer of card files to business. Why the card catalog-a "paper machine" with rearrangeable elements-can be regarded as a precursor of the computer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability., Books<

2011, ISBN: 9780262015899

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